A HEALTH-SERVICE FIT FOR THE 21ST-CENTURY - THE WELSH HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 2010 PROJECT

'Health and Social Care 2010', a project of the Welsh Health Planning Forum, has been designed to link the overall strategy of the National Health Service in Wales with the planning of local health-cave strateg ies. During the first phase of the project, forces that may impact on health and social services in the future have been identified, and con sideration has been given to how the services could adapt to the expec ted changes. The result has been a vision of a new kind of health care based on clusters of services. Testable indicators of the vision's fu lfilment have also been identified in the form of nine assumptions reg arding specific future developments in the health and social services. Groups at several pilot sites have analysed these assumptions in term s of their achievability and desirability, thus illuminating potential roadblocks in reaching the desired future, as well as creative ways a round these problems.